Having your symptoms dismissed by a medical provider is, unfortunately, a common experience. Here are some good reasons to listen to what your body is telling you.
This article states that medical gaslighting is more apt to affect women, people of color, geriatric patients, and LGBTQ people. In another Times article —
— the paper reported, “We know that women, and especially women of color, are often diagnosed and treated differently by doctors than men are, even when they have the same health conditions.”diagnoses are in full sustained remission, I still have to list my psychotropic meds on my list of medications. Each time I go to a new physician, I’m fearful that she will take one glance at the list and write me and my symptoms off as mental-illness based.
This Times article also notes, “Women say doctors frequently blame their health problems on their mental health, weight, or a lack of self-care, which can delay effective treatment. Research suggests that women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with a mental illness when their symptoms are consistent with heart disease.”
In early 2017 I was having stomach pain and nausea. The gastroenterologist told me I was having chronic functional abdominal pain and I would have to learn to live with it. He hinted, not so subtly, that the pain was related to my mental health. I was so upset, I didn’t seek a second opinion for another four months, until I had lost a significant amount of weight and was in excruciating pain. I went to see a female GI at the same women’s health center as the above-mentioned cardiologist.
I again sent a message through the patient portal to the original GI who misdiagnosed me, letting him know the correct diagnosis was SIBO. He also answered, “Thank you for letting me know."Source: © Andrea Rosenhaft
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